<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116727" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines Addressed to a Young Lady</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doubtless, sweet girl! the hissing lead,<br> Wafting destruction o'er thy charms<br>And hurtling o'er thy lovely head,<br> Has fill'd that breast with fond alarms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely some envious Demon's force,<br> Vex'd to behold such beauty here,<br>Impell'd the bullet's viewless course,<br> Diverted from its first career.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes! in that nearly fatal hour,<br> The ball obey'd some hell-born guide;<br>But Heaven, with interposing power,<br> In pity turn'd the death aside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, as perchance one trembling tear<br> Upon that thrilling bosom fell;<br>Which I, th' unconscious cause of fear,<br> Extracted from its glistening cell;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say, what dire penance can atone<br> For such an outrage, done to thee?<br>Arraign'd before thy beauty's throne,<br> What punishment wilt thou decree?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Might I perform the Judge's part,<br> The sentence I should scarce deplore;<br>It only would restore a heart,<br> Which but belong'd to thee before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The least atonement I can make<br> Is to become no longer free;<br>Henceforth, I breathe but for thy sake,<br> Thou shalt be all in all to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But thou, perhaps, may'st now reject<br> Such expiation of my guilt;<br>Come then, some other mode elect?<br> Let it be death, or what thou wilt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Choose, then, relentless! and I swear<br> Nought shall thy dread decree prevent;<br>Yet hold—one little word forbear!<br> Let it be aught but banishment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116727" data-title="Lines Addressed to a Young Lady de Byron" data-description="Doubtless, sweet girl! the hissing lead,/ Wafting destruction o'er thy charms/And hurtling o'er thy lovely head,/ Has fill'd that breast with fond alarms./Surely some envious Demon's force,/ Vex'd to behold such beauty here,/Impell'd the bullet's ..."></div> </div> </div>

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